March 6

1763 -6th, 7th, 8th March, the soldiers being storm staid, set them to clear the ice from the trough and saw mill. -Gilliland.

1767 -the weather warm and clear. -Idem.

1783 Capt. Twiss is directed by "R. M." in a letter written from Quebec to purchase horse and sleds from the Loyalists who have arrived with them at the Loyal Block House and cannot return on account of bad ice.  -Canadian Archives.

1806 Uriah Palmer was elected deacon of the Baptist church at Keeseville.

1811 Among the subscribers who agree to pay ten dollars for each share subscribed by them towards defraying the expense of building a school house in the village of Plattsburgh, we find Charles Marsh, 1 share; George Marsh, 3 shares; Gilead Sperry and Swetland, 5 shares; Gilead Sperry 1 share.  George Marsh was one of the first trustees.

1838 Essex County Academy at Westport received a charter from the Regents.  The first trustees were Aaron B. Mack, Judge Charles Hatch, Charles B. Hatch, George B. Reynolds, Ira Henderson, Norris McKinney, Barnabas Myrick, Caleb P. Cole and Joseph Cole.  For twenty years this was one of the important schools in the valley, receiving pupils from New York and Montreal, from Vermont and all the towns of the county.  The building was burned about 1874.

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